US prosecutors tame 'Girls Gone Wild'

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — A California maker of pornographic movies pleaded guilty in the first federal prosecution of a law designed to protect minors from exploitation by the sex industry. The Department of Justice said the business, "Girls Gone Wild", had agreed to pay 2.1 million dollars and promised to stay out of legal trouble for three years in return for escaping trial.

"This prosecution makes clear that those who seek to enrich themselves at the expense of our children's innocence in violation of the laws intended to protect them will be held to answer in federal court," US Attorney Gregory Miller of Florida said in a statement. The department said it believed the charges were the first filed under a law -- dubbed Section 2257 -- passed by Congress last year that requires...